UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (Press Release) — Ambassador Samantha Power, the U.S. permanent representatitve to the United Nations, said on Wednesday, April 16, that the world must do more to stop mass killings and atrocities in Syria. At a Security Council briefing on the prevention and fight against genocide, she described as “devastating” crimes against […]
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Middle East, USA
BOSTON (Press Release) –President Obama’s assistant for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, Lisa Monaco, told a forum at Harvard’s Kennedy School that to prevent terrorism families and communities must be aware and ready to intervene when someone’s behavior lurches towards violence. Following is a partial text of her speech, delivered Tuesday, April 15: * “We’ve faced
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USANEW YORK (Press Release)—AJC called on UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to remove Rima Khalaf from her position as UN Under-Secretary General and Executive Secretary of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA). “Under-Secretary General Khalaf’s profound and all-too-obvious animus against one UN member state, Israel, has betrayed her fundamental responsibility as
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Middle East
SINAI DESERT, Egypt (ETN) — It’s a major travel and tourism attraction in Egypt, and a UNESCO heritage site – yet a former Egyptian general wants St Catherine’s Monastery–by tradition built at the site of Moses’ well– demolished. The monastery’s lawyer, Ihab Ramzy, said that in May 2012 Ahmed Ragai Attiya obtained 71 administrative orders
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Travel and Food
By Dr. Elinor Gary ETN Editor-in-Chief I was at the bar with a frriend discussing the merits of the kosher wine we were drinking as we waited for the arrival of Uzi Landau, the current Israeli Tourism Minister. Guests came and went with their wine glasses and I hardly noticed – until I heard a
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Middle East, Travel and Food
Ben Kamin, Dangerous Friendship: Stanley Levison, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Kennedy Brothers, Michigan State University Press, © 2014, ISBN 978-1-61186-131-0, 256 pages including bibliography, notes and index. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—Martin Luther King Jr. had as a trusted aide a millionaire friend, who was an attorney and a successful real estate
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Donald H. HarrisonBy Aryeh Savir HEBRON (TNA) — A senior police officer was murdered, his pregnant wife (28) seriously wounded and one of their sons (9) was lightly wounded right before the Passover holiday by Arab terrorists who shot them as they were on their way to the holiday festivities, according to police. The deadly attack occurred
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Middle East
By Noah Hadas SAN DIEGO — As a teacher of Jewish history, I’ve often been asked about the historical veracity of the Exodus (the biblical account not the movie with Paul Newman.) In preparation for Passover, I’d like to summarize the opposing views and provide my own insight. Those who claim the story is mythical
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Jewish HistoryBy Michael Mantell, PhD SAN DIEGO — My car has a world-class GPS system in it. It’s a genuine, high-tech, (the kind I need our 13-year-old to explain), sure-to-get-me-where-I-want-to-go virtual assistant that guides me in my travels. Only problem is, I said I wanted to get to “happiness,” and it was stymied. Some GPS system
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Michael MantellWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–U.S President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry were among the public officials who have sent Passover greetings to the Jewish community. President Obama said in a statement: “Michelle and I send our warmest greetings to all those celebrating Passover in the United States, in Israel, and around the world.
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Jewish Religion, USABranko: In Praise of a Good Man’s Journey Through Life, by Stuart Tower, The Lighthouse Press, LLC Mobile Alabama. 2013, 473 pages. By David Strom CHULA VISTA, California — Bracha Horvitch was six years old, hiding under the floorboards of the house while he heard the curdling screams of his mother, father and two sisters as
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Travel and Food
San Diego Jewish World news roundup There were new developments and more responses Monday to the killing of three people at Jewish institutions in the Kansas City suburbs on Sunday and to the suspect calling out “Heil Hitler” to reporters after being taken into custody. Fox News reported that the woman shot in the parking
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — It is tempting to simply list all the ways the Obama administration — particularly Secretaries Kerry and Hagel — has been wrong on foreign and defense policy. After all, Russia/Ukraine, Syria, Iran, China, and Israel/Palestinians are nothing to sneeze at. But finding a common thread among the mistakes might
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Middle East, Shoshana BryenNEW YORK (Press Release)–The shooter arrested in the killing of three individuals outside the Jewish institutions in Overland Park, Kansas is a white supremacist with a long history of promoting anti-Semitism and racism, according to a backgrounder released by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). The suspect, identified by police as Frazier Cross, but who is also
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